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JD Sports Forum! / Re: Stanley Cup Playoffs
« on: May 12, 2003, 09:43 PM »
Not 1 but two Short Handed Goals 
The third and fourth of the Playoffs
Horrible
The third and fourth of the Playoffs
Horrible
Bringing Balance to the Force
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Site Feedback, Suggestions, and Help / Re: Why - JF
« on: May 12, 2003, 05:24 PM »
Global Mods are yellow, we have to power of modding every forum due to a little troll problem when Chris wasn't around, that is myself, Baggy Bulky, Dale and Brad
Red is an admin, don't mess with him
Regular Mods = Thomas Grey, JF, dustrho and Jesse James are all the same color as regular posters (gold)
Red is an admin, don't mess with him
Regular Mods = Thomas Grey, JF, dustrho and Jesse James are all the same color as regular posters (gold)
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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Dying sucks. :(
« on: May 12, 2003, 05:03 PM »
My condolences to you Cory, Alison and your family...glad to hear you are doing well though
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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Video Games
« on: May 12, 2003, 04:38 PM »
Yep that will do the trick 
GC here I come (maybe next week!)
GC here I come (maybe next week!)
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Other Collectibles / Re: Who wants more Unleashed?!?!
« on: May 12, 2003, 03:52 PM »
Just had a cool idea
And would take the word Unleashed Literally
And would take the word Unleashed Literally
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Newbies / Re: I Welcome Myself
« on: May 12, 2003, 03:50 PM »
You can welcome yourself and I'll welcome you as well! 
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JD Sports Forum! / Re: The NBA Playoffs
« on: May 12, 2003, 03:42 PM »
And as much as I hate Kobe I actually really like a lot about Shaq, he is so big and strong and can have such finesse around the hoop, he is a lot of fun to watch when he wants to play
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JD Sports Forum! / Re: The NBA Playoffs
« on: May 12, 2003, 03:36 PM »
It goes both ways though, on the Offensive end I saw tons of calls where Shaq could be called for charging or pushing off or just being way too physical, they allow that to happen so they will have to allow the physical play by defenders to happen too
He should have his own rules
He should have his own rules
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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Pics to Names!
« on: May 12, 2003, 03:34 PM »
Yep Spaghetti...I got to clean up since Mom was with Mom-in-law for a little R&R all weekend. Boys weekend went pretty well
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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Video Games
« on: May 12, 2003, 02:12 PM »
OMG, new Mario Kart! Now my wife will actually be happy when I buy one. She misses our battles on the N64...we used to spend Friday nights drinking some beer and playing Mario Kart or Mario Party...
I'll print this page off to her as a testament!
I'll print this page off to her as a testament!
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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Bar's open! What'll you have...?
« on: May 12, 2003, 02:03 PM »
You had me at Finlandia...all hail the mother country (at least for me )
(at least for me )
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Hey Hasbro! / Fix the Case Assortments...AGAIN
« on: May 12, 2003, 01:41 PM »
You had it pretty much right during the POTJ days, you screwed it up again during the last part of last year. Release figures only in on wave and only in one case, there is no need to repack cases again and again with the same pegwarmers...
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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Dying sucks. :(
« on: May 12, 2003, 01:15 PM »
I'll also offer my condolences DK, I've lost three of my grandparents and it is a tough time...take solace in the fact that she has moved on to a better place and one day you will see her again
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Saga '02-'04 / Re: What's up with availability
« on: May 12, 2003, 12:17 PM »
#1 Case Assortments
They had this figured out during POTJ, no repacks in most of the cases. Each Wave came with new figures and cases only contained one wave. With Saga we see a trend back to the old days of POTF2, holdovers into new cases means product glut on the pegs. Horrible, Horrible, Horrible.
They need to fix this, Immediately
#2 Over Production coupled with Lack of interest
At first they learned their lesson it looked like, product was actually moving very well, there weren't bins upon bins of figures ala EpI. You didn't see pegs being restocked with Wave 1 product...until around the Luke/Vader and Palpatine Waves. Sales dried up faster than the Sahara and I'm sure all of that stuff was already in production and it came to retail and sat. I still think my Target has cases of this stuff in the stock room Add in a post movie year, kiddos not into SW anymore (where is that attention span 
) people tired of the SOS on the pegs, distribution/retailers cutting back means lower sales in general
So has Hasbro cut back production or are Stores not ordering or are people turning to etailers?
#3 More competition and Price Point
Action figure aisle is cluttered with a ton of product, Simpsons, LOTR, Marvel, Batman, GI Joe, He-Man, Power Rangers, TMNT, Spider-Man, McFarlane, Peanuts, Harry Potter all for about the same or even cheaper price. My toy dollar keeps getting spread thinner and thinner each year
#4 Lack of Quality
Long running complaint of mine, the Saga figures suck quality wise compared to a lot of POTJ product (action features, pre posed etc etc) Add to that a lack of bang for the relative buck plastic wise and I can see why people aren't buying anymore
The big question for me remains where is all of the figures if Hasbro hasn't cut back on production. I got my first 2003 figs in early March, here we are in mid May and I still haven't seen anything at Target or Wally World or TRU...that is 2 months behind sightings of the Han/Chewie and Yoda waves means there is a ton of product possibly sitting somewhere that isn't being unloaded
They had this figured out during POTJ, no repacks in most of the cases. Each Wave came with new figures and cases only contained one wave. With Saga we see a trend back to the old days of POTF2, holdovers into new cases means product glut on the pegs. Horrible, Horrible, Horrible.
They need to fix this, Immediately
#2 Over Production coupled with Lack of interest
At first they learned their lesson it looked like, product was actually moving very well, there weren't bins upon bins of figures ala EpI. You didn't see pegs being restocked with Wave 1 product...until around the Luke/Vader and Palpatine Waves. Sales dried up faster than the Sahara and I'm sure all of that stuff was already in production and it came to retail and sat. I still think my Target has cases of this stuff in the stock room
Add in a post movie year, kiddos not into SW anymore (where is that attention span ) people tired of the SOS on the pegs, distribution/retailers cutting back means lower sales in generalSo has Hasbro cut back production or are Stores not ordering or are people turning to etailers?
#3 More competition and Price Point
Action figure aisle is cluttered with a ton of product, Simpsons, LOTR, Marvel, Batman, GI Joe, He-Man, Power Rangers, TMNT, Spider-Man, McFarlane, Peanuts, Harry Potter all for about the same or even cheaper price. My toy dollar keeps getting spread thinner and thinner each year
#4 Lack of Quality
Long running complaint of mine, the Saga figures suck quality wise compared to a lot of POTJ product (action features, pre posed etc etc) Add to that a lack of bang for the relative buck plastic wise and I can see why people aren't buying anymore
The big question for me remains where is all of the figures if Hasbro hasn't cut back on production. I got my first 2003 figs in early March, here we are in mid May and I still haven't seen anything at Target or Wally World or TRU...that is 2 months behind sightings of the Han/Chewie and Yoda waves means there is a ton of product possibly sitting somewhere that isn't being unloaded